English book · Woman in Islamic Shariah

FOREWORD

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By Maulana Wahiduddin Khan

Foreword ~ 11 ~ years, women have failed to achieve a status equal to that of men. They are almost as backward today as they were before the launching of the “women’s lib” movement. The only practical result has been that women have come out of the home, and are to be seen everywhere in the company of men. By degrees they have lost their femininity without having achieved the goal of equal status with men in every domain for which they paid this very high price. The failure of women’s liberation has led to wideranging research being carried out on this topic, employing strictly scientific methods. Finally, the patent biological differences between men and women have been scientifically proved. These differences have all along been a reason for women’s failure to find an equal place in every department of life. Where philosophers had cast doubts upon the religious concept of women — quite erroneously as it turned out — scientific findings have now reestablished this concept’s veracity. Now the question arises as to why it is that once science has supported the religious concept of man and woman as being the right one, the allegation

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